Session Notes for R1 (Rapid Turnaround Monday) session: r1612
Prepared by C. Thomas, NVI, Inc./GSFC
Refer to http://ivscc.gsfc.nasa.gov/program/descrip2013.html#r1
for the session purpose.
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Experiment: R1612 Description IVS-R1
Scheduler: NASA Correlator: BONN
Start: 2013-322-17:00:00 End: 2013-323-17:00:00
Current yyyyddd: 2013322 (2013.88) ( 16615 MJD, MON. 18NOV.)
Greenwich sidereal time: 20:51: 0.00 (17: 0: 0 UT)
Sun's RA and DEC: 15h 36.8m -19d 22.4
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There are no observations for Kokee and Wettzell from 18:15 U.T.
to 19:45 U.T. Kokee and Wettzell will participate in the
intensive session during this period.
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First observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf Wz
0332-403 13322-170000| 97 97 58 |
1611+343 13322-170000| 328 174 95 165 328 94 75|
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Last observations
Source Start DURATIONS
name yyddd-hhmmss Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf Wz
1144-379 13323-165341| 200 200 |
1958-179 13323-165425| 182 182 152 |
0552+398 13323-165456| 97 43 97 43 43|
0727-115 13323-165810| 43 43 |
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SKED Summary from file ./r1612.skd for experiment R1612
(all scans with at least one subnet station)
Average number of obs. per baseline per source(normalized by up-time) = 5.1
Min = 0.0 Max = 90.0 (Baseline Ny-Wz on 1741-038) RMS = 9.8
Total time: 1439 minutes ( 24.0 hours).
Key: Ai=AIRA Ft=FORTLEZA Hh=HARTRAO Kk=KOKEE Ny=NYALES20
On=ONSALA60 Tc=TIGO Ur=URUMQI Wf=WESTFORD Wz=WETTZELL
Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf Wz Avg
% obs. time: 61 45 36 50 51 55 59 50 55 42 50
% cal. time: 3 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 3 3
% slew time: 8 31 44 18 17 19 4 30 13 12 20
% idle time: 28 20 17 28 27 22 34 16 28 42 27
total # scans: 224 212 208 248 293 261 193 273 276 302 249
# scans/hour : 9 9 9 10 12 11 8 11 12 13 10
Avg scan (sec): 233 184 147 175 151 183 263 157 171 119 178
# data tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
# Mk5 tracks: 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16 16
Total TBytes: 1.9 1.4 1.1 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.5 1.7 1.3 1.6
Total TB(M5): 1.7 1.2 1.0 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.4 1.5 1.2 1.4
# OF OBSERVATIONS BY BASELINE
| Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf Wz Total
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Ai| 2 24 114 86 57 1 150 37 61 532
Ft| 110 22 28 39 124 13 86 53 477
Hh| 0 35 72 81 54 37 75 488
Kk| 88 42 66 61 100 50 543
Ny| 161 10 171 153 182 914
On| 22 114 105 212 824
Tc| 0 61 25 390
Ur| 69 151 783
Wf| 122 770
Wz| 931
Number of 2-station scans: 365
Number of 3-station scans: 189
Number of 4-station scans: 108
Number of 5-station scans: 77
Number of 6-station scans: 52
Number of 7-station scans: 8
Number of 8-station scans: 1
Number of 9-station scans: 0
Number of 10-station scans: 0
Total # of scans, observations: 800 3326
Average X-band SNRs by baseline
| Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf Wz AVG
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Ai| 25 30 25 41 39 15 43 36 47 38
Ft| 55 28 32 53 28 28 56 73 46
Hh| - 45 52 25 55 49 85 52
Kk| 47 36 17 44 50 51 38
Ny| 80 18 81 72 115 75
On| 27 65 59 120 75
Tc| - 26 32 25
Ur| 64 94 67
Wf| 86 61
Wz| 94
Average S-band SNRs by baseline
| Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf Wz AVG
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Ai| 18 19 25 17 20 13 19 19 17 20
Ft| 29 26 22 22 14 23 26 27 23
Hh| - 29 25 16 30 28 34 27
Kk| 37 34 22 38 43 33 33
Ny| 28 19 29 28 33 29
On| 16 25 24 31 27
Tc| - 15 15 16
Ur| 27 31 27
Wf| 30 28
Wz| 30
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Recording mode
Name Code
GEOSX SX
Recording mode setup for:
AIRA HARTRAO KOKEE NYALES20 TIGOCONC URUMQI WESTFORD
Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel
Mk341:1 256 Mbits 128 MHz 14 1 NONE
Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed
8.00 MHz 1 16(*1) 16 0.00
X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz
S-band spanned bw= 140.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.9 MHz
Effective number of 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass
X S Total
10.00 6.00 16.00
Recording mode setup for:
FORTLEZA ONSALA60 WETTZELL
Mode Tot.Rate Tot.BandW #BBC #bits Barrel
Mk341:2 256 Mbits 128 MHz 14 1 NONE
Chan.BW #Subpasses Tracks(*fan) Tot.tracks Speed
8.00 MHz 1 16(*2) 32 0.00
X-band spanned bw= 720.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 280.4 MHz
S-band spanned bw= 140.0 MHz rms spanned bw= 50.9 MHz
Effective number of 1-bit channels recorded per sub-pass
X S Total
10.00 6.00 16.00
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Monitoring Sources
Source Min Max Actual #Num #Scans
0600+177 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
3C279 1.00 1.50 0.33 11 6
1221+809 1.00 1.50 0.18 6 1
1824-582 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
0347-211 1.00 1.50 0.15 5 3
2245-328 1.00 1.50 0.33 11 11
2106+143 1.00 1.50 0.00 0 0
OK290 1.00 1.50 0.87 29 11
1611+343 1.00 1.50 1.68 56 4
0110+495 1.00 1.50 0.60 20 2
Total 4.15 138 38
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Minor Options
Astro Abs 3.00
BegScan Rel 1.00
EndScan Rel 1.00
NumObs Rel 1.00
StatIdle Abs 3.00
StatWt Abs 2.00
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Major Options
Subnet AiFtHhKkNyOnTcUrWfWz
SkyCov Yes
AllBlGood Yes
MaxAngle 180.00
MinAngle 15.00
MinBetween 20
MinSunDist 4.00
MaxSlewTime 300
TimeWindow 24.00
MinSubNetSize 2
NumSubNet 1
Best 60
FillIn Yes
FillMinSub 3
FillMinTime 120
FillBest 80
Add_ps 30.0
SNRWts Yes
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Weighted Station
1 AIRA 4.00
7 TIGOCONC 6.00
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Tape types
ID Station Tape length Density Passes
Ai AIRA K5
Ft FORTLEZA Mark5A
Hh HARTRAO Mark5B
Kk KOKEE Mark5B
Ny NYALES20 Mark5B
On ONSALA60 Mark5A
Tc TIGOCONC Mark5B
Ur URUMQI Mark5B
Wf WESTFORD Mark5B
Wz WETTZELL Mark5A
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SNR Targets
Minimum SNR by baseline for multi-baseline scans
X-band (margin 0) S-band (margin 0)
X-band (ast_margin 0) S-band (ast_margin 0)
Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf Ai Ft Hh Kk Ny On Tc Ur Wf
Ft 20 Ft 15
Hh 20 20 Hh 15 15
Kk 20 20 20 Kk 15 15 15
Ny 20 20 20 20 Ny 15 15 15 15
On 20 20 20 20 20 On 15 15 15 15 15
Tc 15 15 15 15 15 15 Tc 12 12 12 12 12 12
Ur 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 Ur 15 15 15 15 15 15 12
Wf 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 Wf 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15
Wz 20 20 20 20 20 20 15 20 20 Wz 15 15 15 15 15 15 12 15 15